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In the Thread: The Deutsches Requiem of My Dreams
Post Subject: The LP versionPosted by Paul S on: 4/5/2015
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I managed to find a nice, early iteration of an early LP set (NM; 1-S stampers; 1951), and I first listened to this yesterday, with fairly lousy electricity. Some aspects of the sound were better than my CD, but mostly, oddly, both sources have the same problems with noise and something that sounds like "tracking issues", which seems weird in the case of the CD. Or, perhaps it is simply "overload" of the original transfer media, however the original recording was made and stored. I wish I could but I can't say I got any more Music from the LPs in this case. It appears (as I'd feared) that the problems with the master (or dubs) were "there" by the time the LP producers did their thing. Now I'm wondering (again) if the earliest 78s have the same sonic problems or if they are free of the problems I've heard so far. It doesn't come up often for me, but when it does, I wish I had left the door open for 78s...
Kudos, after all, to the CD producers; not bad at all, considering what they had to work with.
FWIW, this is still a nice rendition of the piece, when the electricity allows it at all.
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